savanna faith cornibe

Savanna Faith Cornibe

Government Affairs Manager

Savanna Faith Cornibe is the Government Affairs Manager at the Commonwealth Foundation.

Savanna Faith holds an MA in Government from Regent University with a concentration in American Government. While obtaining her degree, she worked full-time as the administrative records coordinator for the dean’s office in the university’s School of Education. She completed her undergraduate work at the Mississippi University for Women, with a major in communications and a minor in political science. She was a member of the Phi Theta Kappa International Alumni Honor Society.

Savanna Faith began working at the Commonwealth Foundation as an intern in 2014 and soon after joined full time. She has been part of its incredible growth and reach. She is eager to see the next phase!

Before the Commonwealth Foundation, Savanna Faith worked on Capitol Hill as a lobbyist for the Traditional Values Coalition, volunteered for multiple political campaigns and non-profits, and served as both host and producer of a local Christian TV show in the Nashville, Tennessee area. The Mississippi University for Women, in recognition of her valuable contributions, inducted Savanna Faith into its Hall of Fame, and the Volunteer State Community College (VSCC) honored her with the James “Jim” C. Moore Award for “service to community and family.” She has traveled to and served in numerous countries and loves learning about different cultures.

The Commonwealth Foundation’s positive impact inspires and gratifies her. The issues closest to Savanna Faith’s heart are Criminal Justice Reform and School Choice. She loves connecting with leaders and staffers in the Capitol, especially about these vital issues. She values the relationships formed and views her colleagues as family. Savanna Faith is thrilled to be part of a team invested in freedom and prosperity for all Pennsylvanians.

In 2024, City & State Pennsylvania named Savanna Faith to its “Power of Diversity: Women 100” list, an award recognizing and ranking the most influential women in the commonwealth.

She treasures life with her husband, their two sons, therapy poodle, and kitty. Her youngest son is a medical miracle and a joy to care for, including his special needs. They reside in the Harrisburg area.

Calls for heads to roll at PHEAA

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 4, 2007

The Patriot News says PHEAA employees who think they would earn more in the private sector should go earn more in the private sector (by which they mean not…

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Transit proposal fails to add up

  • September 2, 2007

PennDOT Secretary Allen Biehler says what we said long ago, that light rail in Central PA would create a giant sucking sound of taxpayer money. We hate to…

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Beaver nonprofit pays top dollar to senator’s wife

  • September 2, 2007

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Sen. Gerald LaValle’s wife’s compensation ($102,076, plus a $9,695 pension benefit) to run a non-profit charity that has been funded primarily with taxpayer money through…

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The Strange Career of Affirmative Action

  • September 1, 2007

Hillsdale College professor Paul Moreno writes in The Wall Street Journal that “This 125th Labor Day, Americans ought to consider one of organized labor’slesser-known contributions to American politics:…

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Turnpike Commission Loves P3s

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 31, 2007

They Mon-Fayette Expressway, which the Turnpike Commission promised to complete in order to get their sweetheart deal passed, will like be built using a public-private partnership. Chris Buckley has…

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Campaign Finance Reform Gone Haywire

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 30, 2007

This story from the Wall Street Journal (hat tip to Tony Phyrillas) illustrates exactly why campaign donation limits are a meaningless reform. Unfortunately, this is the same type…

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Investigation into Bonus-Gate heats up

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 30, 2007

Post-Gazette reports the the AG’s office has seized records on House Democratic staffers to see if bonuses were tied to campaign work. They are apparently also investigating Mike Veon…

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Public vs. Private: Rebuilding New Orleans

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 30, 2007

USA Today article on the rebuilding in New Orleans – noting that rebuilding efforts funding by private entrepreneurs and philanthropists are done faster and better than anything funded by…

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Ripping Off Taxpayers, Pennsylvania Style

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 29, 2007

Richard Vedder of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity weighs in on the PHEAA bonuses. Vedder’s book Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much is…

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PHEAA’s solution to bonus furor: pay raises

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 29, 2007

PHEAA’s solution to bonus furor: pay raises – from the Post-Gazette. Topics on this pagePennsylvania Higher Education Assistance AgencyPittsburgh Post-Gazette…

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What Americans Think about Their Schools

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 29, 2007

Results of a survey on public education and school choice is featured in the latest Education Next. Some of the findings I found interesting: School vouchers are generally viewed…

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The SCHIP Open

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 29, 2007

AEI paper on the many flaws of proposed SCHIP expansion, primarily that it provides “Hidden Incentives for States to Spend Federal Funds,” driving up the costs to taxpayers by…

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Do the latest welfare numbers stack up?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 28, 2007

An AP Story covers the latest news release from the PA Department of Public Welfare claiming lowest number of welfare recipients in nearly 50 years. This rosy analysis…

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Rendell targets PHEAA

  • August 28, 2007

Rendell is calling for an “overhaul” of PHEAA. in today’s Tribune-Review. Our guess is that it will just be a shakedown rather than a true effort to reform that…

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Road Work

  • August 28, 2007

On the two year anniversary of Hurrican Katrina, Joel Kotkin in today’s Wall Street Journal notes how politicians push aside the more mundane aspects of “governing” for “the ephemeral…

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A Maverick Mogul, Proudly Politically Incorrect

  • August 27, 2007

The New York Times profiled Commonwealth Foundation First Amendment Scholar Thor Halvorssen’s most recent endeavors at the Moving Picture Institute to use the documentaries to spread the freedom…

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Pennsylvania Political War Over Planned Tolls on I-80

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 27, 2007

New York Times on the debate over tolling I-80. The Times points out, as this blog has, that the plan still requires federal approval, the program the Turnpike…

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Occupational Licensing in the States

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 27, 2007

Reason Foundation report on occupational icensing in the 50 states and how these requirements prevent many individuals from entering into their chosen profession. While Pennsylvania ranks somewhat low among…

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Lessons from Massachusetts

  • Nathan Benefield
  • August 27, 2007

Sally Pipes on the lessons of Massachusetts’ Health Care Reform. Not to be confused with RomneyCare 2.0 (or as Michael Tanner puts it, Romney abandons RomneyCare)…

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